Hard Headed Child

Friday night was the first game in the Conference Tourney for 2Shaye. Her team was up about 20 points and the coach was running the starters in and out to give more of the bench some time in the game. 2Shaye happened to be in playing with about 2 minutes before halftime. She had missed a shot and went up for a rebound with 2 other opponents. When she came down her legs were undercut out from under her. Nothing intentional....just part of the game. She came down...along with the other 2 opponents.... hitting the hardwood ....hard with the back of her head....and it did make a nice echo. I was hoping that the sound didn't come from just her heading bouncing off the floor. She looked a bit dazed as she tried to get up...but made it to her feet pretty quickly. The refs went over to ask all of them if they were ok to resume play. 2Shaye stooped over and put her hands on her knees.....so I pretty much knew at that point it was her noggin that had made the echo...because rarely does she give into the pain of the sport. I saw the ref motion for the coach...who walked came and guided 2Shaye back to the bench. I kept a watch out towards the bench...and at the half buzzer she was the first off the bench and into the locker room. A few minutes later, the coach came and told me to come check on her. I found her...after some hunting...in one of the rooms in the locker room ... in total darkness with ice on her head and neck. She said the fall had caused a visual migraine but only in her peripheral vision. Sidenote: she does suffer from these visual migraine occasionally which usually turns into a full blown migraine withing 30 mins if meds aren't immediately taken at onset. It it like looking through heat vapors off a hot fire or asphalt road in August... everything is distorted. I have had a few of these and they are unnerving. Two of her coaches gave me the 'eye' telling me....better take her on in....for evaluation. But being hardheaded....2Shaye decided that she would work herself up towards the court and sit off to the side to see if the headache got better... but she was so sensitive to light she couldn't watch the game. She then told me when she first hit the ground and tried to stand up that it was like looking through 'black lint' and wasn't sure she could see the bench well enough to find it. Hence the coach coming to assist her..... I trump-ed her and insisted that we go get things checked out when her vision did not clear up as it will typically do..and she was looking a bit strange through the eyes. I found the Xbox Junkie and told him were going going to take her....he insisted on staying and watching the guys' game and we found him a ride home and left him ... only to win the half shot 50-50 shootout.....who would have thunk? Anyway he had a passel of guys coming over to hang out that night...and he was in fear that his plans would be interrupted if he left...that's brotherly love for ya ;) but in the end....his plans worked out ok. I also went to tell Sam what we had decided as he was in the stands peering down to where 2Shaye was sitting and I could tell by his expression he was concerned. He went with us ...as we headed for a 'head check'. Since this was a 'head check' we got placed on the 'fast track' at the Emergency Room...which was nice since the place was PACKED! We even got her CT scan in quickly...... because unfortunately there were 2 folks coming in that was being considered Level 1 traumas.... one being a motorcycle wreck where it was overheard by 2Shaye that the patient had lost a tremendous amount of skin...and that was something I did not want to witness...so we got her in and out of the CT apparatus quickly. Doc said.... as we had suspected...that 2Shaye's CT showed nothing but Fluff in the cranial region! Just kidding 2Shaye.... FORTUNATELY her CT was clear but they said she did have a mild concussion. She has to take it easy for a few days then by Monday back to her normal activities. Her team plays a huge rival on Tuesday night....and I had already told her...I would not allow her to play unless we got things checked out because I know she will give it all she has on Tuesday...and no game is worth the potential of additional damage from a head injury. So she has been cleared for take off...... All of the Xbox Junkie's buddies adore 2Shaye anyway so they were all here making sure she was 'going to be ok for the Mt Airy game'. Its all about the game for these athletes, isn't it? After Sam left.....being a psycho-mom....I sent her to bed although that didn't take much convincing since she was still suffering from a headache.....and I crawled into bed beside of her to sleep and monitor her the rest of the night.

Big thanks to Sam....for always being there for her and being so helpful to us that night. It's so nice that you are always offering your help to all of us ...regardless of the situation....and always unprompted. We love you!

Thanks for all the calls and inquiries about 2Shaye....it has been incredible at the amount of folks that have called her/us to check on things...so many, many thanks for your concerns!

Also ....Big'ole thanks to Sam's parents who offered to hang out with the Xbox Junkie and his entourage of friends after the game...and then for driving all the way to Winston to come find her. We actually had gotten out is such a quick time ...due to the fast track patient care...that we just ended up meeting them and grabbed a quick bite to eat. We almost declined the offer...as Big Daddy was afraid that the Xbox Junkie and his friends would tear the house down but we decided he would make the right decisions and take care of the homefront. He did call when were were about 2 mins from the house to inform us that one of the guys had hit his head over the basketball rim outside and was 'bleeding all over the place'. That's a nice feeling after what we had just gone through...but alas his buddy just had small scrape on the top of his head....but there was blood here and there! :\

All is well and #14 can hit the hardwoods on Tuesday unless she starts with more headaches....and I will bug up on her with MANY questions up until Tuesday night...so she might as well expect some hounding between now and then! But she knows I'm psycho...and like a mama bear.... we love all of our bear cubs beyond words!